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Success Story with Scott D. Clary

Dan Martell - Serial Entrepreneur | $100M CEO Explains How to Create Real Success

Success Story with Scott D. Clary

Success Story Media

Business, How To, Careers, Self-improvement, Education, Entrepreneurship

4.61.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

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Dan Martell is a 5x founder, award-winning angel investor, and the bestselling author of Buy Back Your Time. Recognized as one of the top SaaS mentors in the world, Dan has built and exited multiple companies, including a multi-million dollar exit to Adobe, and has coached over 1,000 founders. He’s also invested in industry giants like Intercom, Udemy, and Unbounce. Through his high-performance coaching and SaaS Academy—the #1 coaching program for B2B SaaS founders—Dan empowers entrepreneurs to scale faster, regain their freedom, and build businesses they don’t want to escape from.


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➡️ Talking Points

00:00 – Intro

01:35 – Dan’s First Wake-Up Call

11:02 – Avoid Entrepreneur Burnout

15:55 – Dan’s Business Blueprint

19:48 – The Key to Scaling Right

24:30 – Sponsor Break

26:27 – Do You Really Want to Play Big?

32:04 – Balancing Life Beyond Business

41:08 – Toughest Relationship Lesson

44:13 – Sponsor Break

45:50 – Separate to Elevate

54:20 – The Power of Being First

57:36 – Dan’s Legacy for His Kids

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Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:06.1

makes impossible growth, impossibly easy for their customers. If you are building a business,

0:12.1

you need to get HubSpot. Why? Here's the perfect example. Morehouse College needed to reach

0:17.0

new students with fresh engaging content, a problem that every single business in the world

0:21.6

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0:35.1

in a fraction of the time. And the results, 30% more page

0:39.1

views and visitors now spend 27% more time on their site. If you are ready for impossible

0:45.5

growth like this, visit HubSpot.com. I just heard my whole life. You're a bad kid,

0:50.3

you're a bad kid. The kids can't play with me, and it caused me to turn to drugs and alcohol.

0:54.8

All the stuff you told me you want to achieve, you literally said, I will not allow myself to be

0:59.9

happy until I do these things. Once you get close to that, you're going to make a new list.

1:05.0

Dan Martel from prison walls to boardrooms. Dan Martel's story is one of raw resilience. He turned

1:10.3

a troubled youth into an empire,

1:12.2

building, scaling, and exiting multiple SaaS companies before becoming one of the most sought

1:17.0

after coaches for high performing founders. It doesn't matter how many zeros are involved. If you

1:22.2

assign your self-worth to this external thing, you can't win, dude. Being a millionaire is being the person

1:29.2

that knows how to create a million dollars worth of value. I'm glad that I got my money when I got it,

1:32.5

because if I got it sooner, I probably would have lost it. The creation step I'm at,

1:36.4

thinking of the problem I want to solve in the world, then designing the company gets involved

1:41.8

in the business, and I refine the business as a product itself and that's

1:46.3

where I play. Author of Buy Back Your Time, Dan teaches leaders how to grow their businesses without

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